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Freelance games industry marketer. Luton Town fan. Worked on EGX & Rezzed back in the day. tomchampion.net

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MIGA!

11.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had a dream that Christopher Walken lived near me and I was in his flat. He needed help with his brother, who was a master tailor but too sad to get out of bed and had to do all his tailoring while horizontal. I tried to help, but after a while, I had to leave, which made Christopher Walken cry.

11.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 23158 πŸ” 6252 πŸ’¬ 201 πŸ“Œ 381
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2026 Games Media Survey It's no secret that more and more indie games are being published every day and it would be virtually impossible to guarantee coverage for every single launch, update and announcement. This is particu...

Games Media folks πŸ“’

We want to help you help indie devs get the coverage they deserve.

If you have ten minutes spare, please consider filling out our survey to better understand the barriers to achieve this:

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Thank you!

10.03.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, sorry, it literally says it on the poster.

10.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that Jerry Stiller as the garbage man?

10.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is sweating while wearing headphones on a plane . Alt: Airplane: A man is sweating while piloting a plane.
09.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is fantastic.

06.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

05.03.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 4017 πŸ” 1255 πŸ’¬ 206 πŸ“Œ 329
Jesus in a MAGA hat β€œOne day I will return but only once you bomb a bunch of kids because a pedophile told you to”

Jesus in a MAGA hat β€œOne day I will return but only once you bomb a bunch of kids because a pedophile told you to”

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette

05.03.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 459 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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Mayfly is a story-rich quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England

Coming Q3 2026 🀞
Wishlist now if you haven’t already:
store.steampowered.com/app/4057470/...

#gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #horrorgame #quiethorror #wishlistwednesday #gametrailer #promosky #storybased

04.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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And to all 750k Eurogamer YouTube fans, thank you so much, you made the last 13 years of my life the best I've had so far! I'd be honoured if you'd follow me to Platform32 where all the good stuff will continue, starting today with an epic 6 hour (!) Requiem stream! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVTW...

02.03.2026 10:38 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

This sucks, sorry Ian. :( You're an excellent dude, and I'm sure whatever comes next for you will be equally excellent.

02.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...

12.02.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 734 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 30
Something Big Is Happening
Something Big Is Happening
Matt Shumer
@mattshumer_ β€’ Feb 10
Think back to February 2020.
If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

Something Big Is Happening Something Big Is Happening Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ β€’ Feb 10 Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished.
Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? β€” that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished. Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? β€” that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...

12.02.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 942 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 20
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Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

11.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 1537 πŸ” 494 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 80

We've done a new game! If you like one or more of:
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!

05.02.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

04.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 1053 πŸ” 247 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 8
Oracle *
@Oracle
X.com
The NVIDIA-OpenAl deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAl. We remain highly confident in OpenAl's ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.

Oracle * @Oracle X.com The NVIDIA-OpenAl deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAl. We remain highly confident in OpenAl's ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.

My β€œthe NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI” shirt has people asking me a lot of questions answered by the shirt

02.02.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 1023 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 14

Well done! If I tried the same thing, the drawer would probably burst into flames.

27.01.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have successfully sprayed WD 40 onto something. My DIY work for the year is complete.

27.01.2026 10:37 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Remote work 2. Exact same people exact same problem

21.01.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 1732 πŸ” 413 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 21
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Native Americans intrigued by Trump’s claim that β€˜landing boats’ doesn’t grant you ownership of the entire country Native American leaders have expressed sudden and intense interest in Donald Trump’s legal theory that a country does not automatically own land simply because β€œsome boats turned up a few hundred y…

NEWS! Native Americans intrigued by Trump's claim that 'landing boats' doesn’t grant you ownership of the entire country newsthump.com/2026/01/19/n...

19.01.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"

hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

11.01.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 6312 πŸ” 970 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 89

Three months here. Probably the first Christmas in 30 years I haven’t had a drink. Happy Christmas!

25.12.2025 13:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going back to bed

10.12.2025 09:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Opened bluesky and immediately found ten things that made me simultaneously sad, angry and terrified. What a world.

10.12.2025 09:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.

05.12.2025 04:02 πŸ‘ 730 πŸ” 197 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 13

Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."

27.11.2025 01:32 πŸ‘ 600 πŸ” 231 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3